Unlawful Combatants A Genealogy of the Irregular Fighter
Unlawful Combatants A Genealogy of the Irregular Fighter
- ISBN 13:
9780199646111
- ISBN 10:
0199646112
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 03/22/2015
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
The ambiguous relationship between irregular fighters and the state is the focus of the book. It explores how the category of the irregular fighter evolved as the conceptual opposite of the regular armed forces, and how this emergence was tied to the evolution of the nation state and its conscripted mass armies at the end of the eighteenth century. It traces the development of the dichotomy of the irregular and the regular, which found its foremost expression in the modern law of armed conflict, into the twenty-first century and provides a critique of the concept of the 'unlawful combatant' as it emerged in the framework of the 'war on terror'.
This book is a project of the Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War.